Micro Catalogue 2018 English

Joint Venture with Tazzari
In April 2016 we entered a joint venture
with the Italian car manufacturer Tazzari.
They are responsible for all the technical
aspects of the Microlino, as well as the
production in Italy. The company was founded
in 1963 by Giorgio Tazzari, who started out by
supplying complex aluminium sand casting
parts to big automotive and motorcycle
companies like Ducati and Ferrari. In 2005
Erik Tazzari, then 23 years old, became
President of the Tazzari Group.
He was always fascinated by electric cars
and wondered why there was no affordable
such automobile on the market. So in 2006
he decided to change that. Erik Tazzari's
objective was to create an electric city car
with outstanding technical features. This
includes an ultralight chassis technology,
incorporating aluminium casting, assembled
with aerospace structural adhesives, using
the most advanced technology for managing
lithium batteries, leading to extraordinary
performance and autonomy. Erik Tazzari has
profited from extensive internal know-how
for high-tech parts and used that to bring his
vision to life. After three years of development,
the Tazzari ZERO was presented in 2009. It
was the first and only electric car designed,
developed and produced in Italy. Since then,
thousands of Tazzari ZERO have been sold all
over the world. In 2016, ten years after the
birth of the Tazzari ZERO project, the range
was renewed with four new electric cars, all of
them meant for use in big cities. The cars,
including the Microlino, will be produced
according to the highest quality standards in
the heart of the Motor Valley in Imola, Italy.
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